President Joe Biden’s efforts to escape party pressure on him to quit his reelection campaign are certainly worthy of the attention the media is giving it, though it’s not unprecedented in modern history.
Former President Jimmy Carter faced a potentially fatal political challenge from the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson did bow out amid the Vietnam War fiasco.
However, with having a single focus on Biden, the media is missing a bigger historical story for the modern era: former President Donald Trump’s comeback.
“Donald Trump is poised to score one of the biggest comebacks in American history — new history in the making — but they are in denial about that,” historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley told Secrets. “They can’t bear to write that story.”
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